NJ.com politics poll: Is it time for email voting?

When lights and voting machines are hooked to generators to ensure that Americans can practice their basic right to vote, perhaps we need to examine our options.David Chmiel/nj.com

We make ultra-secure stock trades, do our confidential banking, give up our most personal information to the Internal Revenue Service when we e-file — and we don't give it a second thought. As we find ourselves standing in line for hours or fighting power outages to take part in a manual voting system that dates back to our nation's earliest traditions, is it time for the U.S. To institute a simple, 21st-century vote-by-email system?